Results for "Donny McCaslin"

Jazz Musician of the Day: Donny McCaslin

August 11, 2021

All About Jazz is celebrating Donny McCaslin's birthday today! Saxophonist Donny McCaslin and his band, featured on David Bowie‘s Blackstar, will make their Motéma Music debut with the October 14 release of Beyond Now, a highly anticipated album dedicated to Bowie. Recorded nearly three months after Bowie’s passing, the project is deeply influenced by their extraordinary ...

Vicenza Jazz 2021

by Libero Farnè
July 15, 2021

Vicenza Varie sedi 1—10.07.2021 Spostato da maggio alla prima decade di luglio, Vicenza Jazz 2021 ha imbastito un programma variegato, che ha accolto una vasta gamma di proposte della scena internazionale, concentrando nella sua parte centrale tre maestri del pianoforte americano: Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Brad Mehldau e Fred Hersch. Inoltre ha invaso la ...

Torino Jazz Festival 2021

by Antonio Baiano
July 9, 2021

Torino Jazz Festival 2021

by Libero Farnè
July 1, 2021

Torino Varie sedi 19—27.06.2021 Il grande successo di pubblico ottenuto dal Torino Jazz Festival 2021, spostato dalla fine di aprile alla fine di giugno, dimostra quanto fosse impellente la fame di musica dal vivo, nonostante le precauzioni da prendere contro una pandemia tutt'altro che debellata definitivamente. D'altra parte bisogna ammettere che il ...

Support the LINER NOTES indiegogo fundraising campaign

July 1, 2021

As LINER NOTES enters its fourth season in July, I am making an appeal for funding in order to keep it going. I ask you to click here to watch a short video explaining the situation and the motivation for this appeal. I am passionate about LINER NOTES, a podcast that I started in 2018. ...

Greg Germann: Tales of Time

by Jack Bowers
June 5, 2021

Tales of Time is the sort of album musicians are most apt to dissect and appreciate. New York-based drummer Greg Germann uses various time signatures to subdivide eleven of his original compositions, building a strong rhythmic platform from which to launch his assorted themes. Germann supervises a quartet whose other members are tenor saxophonist Donny McCaslin, ...

Rush Hour

June 30, 2021

Album: Tales of Time
By Greg Germann
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 04:49

Diego Pinera: Odd Wisdom

by Phillip Woolever
April 12, 2021

In certain musical occasions the essence of time is more vividly pronounced than others. That equation is often pronounced clearly in the technique of how a drummer applies various rhythms, and the resulting effect those metrics have on a song or project. Drummer Diego Pinera is a widely travelled percussionist from Uruguay, currently based ...

Ghosts In The Machine, Part 3: Jazz Musicians And Popular Music

by Kurt Ellenberger
February 23, 2021

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 Part 3: The GhostsIn a recent essay in Commentary, Terry Teachout, arts and culture critic for the Wall Street Journal, makes an argument for the date on which the jazz era officially ended and the rock/pop era began--May 9, ...

Rick Simpson: Everything All Of The Time: Kid A Revisited

by Ian Patterson
January 26, 2021

It is one thing to cover a rock song, after all, jazz musicians have been doing that since The Beatles, but few have tackled an entire album by a rock band. The target of UK pianist/composer Rick Simpson's admiration is Radiohead's Kid A (Parlophone, 2000), an album that provoked wildly divergent critical response in its day. ...